Link Love Paris

A Healthy Dose of Link Love

This week I was reading about the partial collapse of a railing on the Pont des Arts in Paris, due to the enormous weight of padlocks clipped to the fence. In 2008, couples started locking padlocks with their initials to the bridge, then throwing the keys in the Seine below, to signify their love couldn’t be broken. It reminded me I hadn’t done a link love round up for a while, so here are some great posts and articles I’ve loved over the past month or so. Enjoy!

Link Love Paris

Image via ClaudeAttard/Flickr (with a little PicMonkey magic by moi!)

RUNNING

It's a treat being a runner…Inspiration for your long run

I needed this reminder: Secrets of Success: 8 Reasons You Should Take a Break After Racing – from Fuel Your Future With Tina

Great tips in this guest post by Jill Conyers on Nicole’s blog: Training for a Goal Race – from Work in Sweats Mama

Marcia’s coach shared some good tips: How to Return to Running After Injury or Illness – from The Healthy Slice

Safety Reminder: It’s Not Okay to Grab Me: Safety Tips For Female Runners – from You Signed Up For WHAT?

Eric uses his GoPro to video all his races – check out this video of the Brooklyn Half! So cool: Video: 2014 NYRR Brooklyn Half – from Dirty Old Sneakers

Loved this – Kim ran with her 13 year old son in his first half marathon: Hunter’s first Half Marathon and Our First Trail Race – from Day With KT

What do you think? Now We’re Questioning Encouragement? – from Olive to Run

You need to take it easy sometimes: Why Every Run Shouldn’t Be Fast – from Marathons and Macarons

Some good tips on running with a stroller: 5 Stroller/Kid Running Tips – from Mom’s Little Running Buddy

Loved this story of a woman who started a running club at her daughter’s elementary school: Friday FITspiration: Giving Back to Running – from Runladylike

FOOD

Summer Snack IdeasYum! Macadamia nuts are way more popular in Australia, but worth finding here: Healthy White Chocolate and Macadamia Oatmeal Pudding – from The Big Man’s World

Smoothie fan? Pie fan? Apple Pie Smoothie – from Happy Fit Mama

SALADS!! Some great recipes: A Collection of Summer Salads – from Bendiful Blog

Whole foods for the win! No One Gets Addicted to Lettuce – from VitaTrain4Life

These include chocolate, coffee and cream cheese. I rest my case. Black Bottom Cupcakes – from The Lean Green Bean

HEALTH, HAPPINESS and FUN STUFF

Link Love HappinessA potentially life-saving reminder for outdoors runners: Connecting The Dots – from Deb Runs

Emma is a smart cookie and I agree with every word of this: Stop Starving Yourself! – from Be Mom Strong

How to improve bone health: Why High-Impact Exercise Is Good for Your Bones – from NYTimes Well

How do you find inspiration? Trust the process / The journey is hard – from Love Life Surf

Unfortunately, I think this includes instagram filters 😉 Photoshop – Harmless Fun or Loaded Gun? – from Food & Nonsense

I wish I’d thought of a restaurant registry when I was getting married! Wedding do or don’t: Restaurant registry – from A Cup of Jo

Super cool – you plug in either when you want to wake up (and it gives you your ideal bedtime) or when you want to go to bed (and it tells you when you should wake up): sleepyti.me bedtime calculator

FITNESS

Exercise Ball WorkoutI love how Susan is always trying (and conquering and mastering!) things she was afraid to try: Yoga: Fear, Ego and Practice – from Simply Modern Dance

Don’t stick to steady state if you want to change your body composition: Why Steady State Cardio for Fat Loss Is a Bad Decision – from Breaking Muscle

Another good one from one of my favorite sites: Why I Love the Medicine Ball and You Should, Too – from Breaking Muscle

Sweating buckets (or not at all) doesn’t mean much about how hard you’re working out: All About Sweat – from Strong Brees

Jessi started CrossFit a few weeks back and here’s her take: Things I Feel and Have Learned at CrossFit – from Tasty Table Topics

PARENTHOOD

Link Love ParenthoodI’m always curious to read other parents’ lists of baby must-haves: Top 6 Baby Things – from idlehide

This guest post by Nicole is funny (and true!): 5 Ways Motherhood is Like Being an Elite Athlete – from Jill Conyers | Fitness, Health & Happiness

Lots of mamas revealing their parenting ‘fails’: No Mother Is Perfect. No Sh*t – from VitaTrain4Life

Celebrate your fierce: Parents are badasses, too. We’re just too distracted to notice. – from this & these

Love this – Lynda had a novel reason for having her kids walk to school recently! 🙂 That’s It We Are Having Office Hours – from Fitnessmomwinecountry

BLOGGING TIPS

Link Love BloggingCarla always has great Pinterest tips for bloggers: Pinterest Tips and Tricks to Drive Blog Traffic – from Real Into

Do you have Google Analytics? Have you ever actually used it, rather than just look at stats? 3 Actionable Tips to Improve Your Blog with Google Analytics – from Blog Genie

Should you have an email sign-up for your blog? Email Subscription to Blog Posts: Why or Why Not – from Sweet Miles

I love PicMonkey and this is a cool new addition – you can now use your own fonts through their site: Now Serving: All the Fonts in the Galaxy – from The PicMonkey Blog

So awesome – Melissa has a list of every single app, plug-in, theme, website, any kind of resource she uses to run her blog. Really helpful info: The Ultimate Guide to Blogging Resources  – from Blog Clarity

SHAMELESS PLUGS OF MY OWN

sorry not sorryI wrote a guest post on raising a city kid for Nicole (my husband said it’s his favorite thing I’ve written): City Kids – from Mama Work in Sweats

This post I wrote for Kelly was on how mamas can let go of comparison (my mother-in-law liked this one): The fine line between aspiration and comparison – from New Leaf Wellness

I contributed to another one of Eli’s 6 Words posts: An Ode to High Blood Pressure, in 6 Words – from Coach Daddy

Here are my latest posts for Working (Out) Mama on The Stir:

8 Active Stretches to Make You Feel Amazing After Your Workout

The One Word That’s Ruining Your Workout

I was also quoted in an article on The Stir – The REAL Reason You’re Not Losing Weight Even Though You’re Exercising as well as contributing some exercise suggestions for Adriana Velez for this challenge: My 7-Day Core Workout Challenge Had an Unexpected Effect on Me

PHEW!!

Have you (or part of your railing) collapsed under the weight of all this link love?

Read any awesome posts lately? Share them in the comments.

Do you recommend any good, smart personal training type blogs? I’m always checking out Breaking Muscle, but would love other recommendations.

 

26 thoughts on “A Healthy Dose of Link Love”

  1. Thanks so much for featuring my post, and I feel even more honored it is the first one 🙂 You have some great articles there that I have not seen, looking forward to reading them….and do not apologize about plugging your own, you are a great writer, and we need to make sure we did not miss any of your posts 🙂
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  2. Wow – what an incredible list of articles!!!
    Thank you so much for sharing my post about Hunter’s race!!!
    I have read many of the links here but still saw quite a few that I can’t wait to check out – thanks for putting all this together!!!
    Kim recently posted…An Appointment with MyselfMy Profile

    1. I loved your post on Hunter’s race!! Such an amazing experience for you to run with him on his first half (and kind of hysterical that neither of you realized how hardcore the course was!) 😉

    1. You’re welcome! I know, the locks are such a cool idea, but I think they’re cracking down on it now.

    1. You’re welcome, friend!! 🙂 Go to Paris now, while Tate is still free to fly!!!!

    1. I know, it is sad, but I’d rather have the beautiful bridges intact! I think they’re looking for somewhere people can clip their locks that doesn’t affect the bridges.

    1. I think we all read a core group of blogs! 🙂 Hopefully you’ll find a couple of new, awesome blogs here!

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